PROFFCourses

Use of Webcams in Online Learning and Student Privacy

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Use of Webcams in Online Learning and Student Privacy

Many faculty have asked questions about how to manage the use of cameras, including whether or not they can require students to have cameras, and whether or not they can require students to turn on the cameras during synchronous class meetings. While the policy provides insights, this workshop provides the opportunity to ask questions.

Presenter(s): 

  • Amy Cole, UMKC Registrar
  • Heather Hunt, Faculty Fellow for Strategic Initiatives, Office of eLearning at University of Missouri System
  • Charles Rigdon, Technology Resource Coordinator at University of Missouri
  • Danna Wren, Senior Director of Academic Technology at University of Missouri System
  • TBD – UM System attorney

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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After signing up for this event, you will receive an email confirmation. Prior to the event, you will receive a second email containing the Zoom invite link.

Making Courses Format Flexible for Fall – Seriously?

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The need to design our courses as format flexible this fall is bringing anxiety for many. Format flexible adds intentional online elements to the course structure, so should there be a need to transition, we teach and students engage in online learning rather than remote learning. Join us for a conversation on the challenges that faculty are facing in preparing format flexible courses and some ideas to make the transition easier.

Message from Provost: “Many courses will be offered as hybrid/blended or hy-flex in the fall semester as a means to increase accessibility, flexibility, and reduce classroom demand.  Both hybrid and fully-face-to-face courses must be designed as format flexible so that if we need to make a quick shift to remote instruction, it will occur as a seamless transition to an online experience for students that continues to be highly engaging and continues to meet all of the student learning objectives for the course.”

Presenters:

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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Communication, Engagement, and Community

Collaboration and online interactions. Learner to learner interaction can be achieved by assigning small group projects, by requesting responses to discussion board postings and by engaging students through peer-evaluated assignments or critiques (QM Standard 5.1). In this session, we will discuss our experiences with a variety of interactions and online engagement, such as peer-evaluated assignments, oral interviews in foreign language, VoiceThread, and Canvas discussion boards (inviting the audience to share also). Finally, we will discuss our collaborative engagement in messaging with students, providing feedback on the assignments and setting productive communication guidelines.

Event Details

Presenters:  Kelley Melvin, Foreign Languages and Literatures,  and Viviana Grieco, Department of History and Latin American and Latinx Studies

Academic Unit: College of Arts and Sciences

Bios: https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/melvin-kelley/  https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/grieco-viviana/

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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Think-Pair-Share Questions for Facilitating Active Learning in Face-to-Face and Online Courses

I will present my emergent strategy for facilitating collaborative `active learning’ in a large-enrollment, asynchronous online course utilizing Canvas, Panopto, and Zoom. I will briefly share my motivations and guiding principles for fostering active learning (it’s what the students do that matters, fundamentally) in my courses at all academic levels as a means to achieving high-quality and more equitable education. I utilize this approach because there is over 30 years of compelling evidence that active-learning pedagogy increases content mastery and reduces performance gaps, which matches what I experience in my courses. My face-to-face approach has long been ~50% of lecture time devoted to activities designed to engage students in practice and rich discussions with peers related to problem-solving, concept synthesis, and other higher-order cognitive skill development. I find that active-learning implementation that is authentic, frequent, inclusive, and encouraging is key to achieving a high level of student buy-in and active engagement in their learning. This can be achieved through any number of specific methodologies. For large enrollments, I utilize Think-Pair-Share discussion questions which can be easily adapted to asynchronous, collaborative Canvas Discussions.

Session objectives:  participants will be able to

  1. Recognize and understand the importance of active learning as a high-impact teaching practice.
  2. Implement the use of Think-Pair-Share questions in face-to-face and online courses.
  3. Implement the use of Discussions, Groups, and Quizzes in Canvas.

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Presenter: Daniel H. McIntosh, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Director of STEM Education Research

Academic Unit: College of Arts and Sciences; affiliated faculty, Missouri Institute for Defense and Energy

Bio: https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/mcintosh-daniel/

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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After signing up for this event, you will receive an email confirmation. Prior to the event, you will receive a second email containing the Zoom invite link.

Rained out – PROFFcourses T-Shirts – Health Sciences District

RAINED OUT – STAY TUNED FOR ANOTHER DATE

This is a low-tech operation – Alexis, a mask, a camp chair, and a box of t-shirts 6 ft away – outside With rain predicted over 60% chance all morning, today’s t-shirt pick up will be delayed.

We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8!

Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues.

They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes on the north side of the Health Sciences Building. I will set out t-shirts in the morning by 9:00 am and take them at 12:00 pm.

PROFFcourses T-shirts Pick Up – Cherry Hall – RAINED OUT 7/29/2020

We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8!

Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues.

They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I will set out t-shirts in the morning by 9:00 am and take them at 5:00 pm.

PROFFcourses T-shirts – Cherry Hall

We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8!

Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues.

They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I will set out t-shirts in the morning by 9:00 am and take them at 5:00 pm.

PROFFcourses T-shirt Pick Up – Cherry Hall

We have free t-shirts and are beginning distribution July 8!

Everyone loves a t-shirt so please get yours. Feel free to pick up a t-shirt for colleagues.

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL

They will be organized in boxes with an array of sizes behind Cherry Hall on the Volker Campus (west doors). I will set out t-shirts in the morning by 9:00 am and take them at 5:00 pm.

 

So Are You Burnt Out?!

So you are burnt out?! Identifying and understanding burnout in faculty members. This presentation will provide an overview of burnout and secondary trauma while helping you to identify strategies for self-care.

Agenda:

  • Open discussion about faculty experiences with burnout and secondary trauma
  • Laurel will present on: Vicarious & Secondary Trauma
  • Sarah will present on: The impact of vicarious & secondary trauma and ways to reach out, or get help
  • We will end with a self-care activity

Event Details

Presenters:

Sara Pilgrim, School of Social Work

Laurel Watson, Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology

Academic Unit: School of Education

Bio: https://education.umkc.edu/directory/watson-laurel/

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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Media Walk Through for Managing Video and Other Production Projects Online (working title)

July 7 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CDT

[description soon]

Event Details

Presenter:  Caitlin Horsmon, Associate Professor, Film & Media Arts & Chair, Department of Communication Studies

Academic Unit: College of Arts and Sciences

Bio: https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/Horsmon-Caitlin/

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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Project Based Learning Across Asynchronous and Face to Face Landscapes

July 24 @ 12:30 – 1:15 PM CDT

Project-based learning (PBL) is a teaching and learning method that fundamentally develops 4 C’s of 21st Century Learning: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication. In this interactive presentation, I talk about PBL strategies to transform classroom teaching into a high impact educational practice.

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Presenter: Majid Bani Yaghoub, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Academic Unit: College of Arts and Sciences

Bio: https://cas.umkc.edu/directory/Bani-Yaghoub-Majid/

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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Transforming Effective Face-to-face Teaching Strategies to the Online Format

Transforming Effective Face-to-face Teaching Strategies to the On-line Format

Dr. Karyn Turla and Dr. Tara Allen combined have over 50 years of teaching experience, both at the undergraduate and professional levels. Many of the courses they teach are taken by students who are required to take professional board exams to receive licensure. It is the instructors’ responsibility to assure that students are well prepared for these exams regardless of teaching format. Both Karyn and Tara have spent a considerable amount of time and effort to determine the best practices to achieve high levels of student engagement, understanding, and learning in the Face-to-Face format. In this PROFFCourse, the facilitators will discuss teaching strategies that have worked well, what they learned moving to the on-line course format in the spring of 2020, and what they see doing differently going forward to assure the success of their students.

Event Details

  • Presenters: Karyn M. Turla, Ph.D. and Tara J. Allen, Ph.D.
  • Thursday, July 16 from 10:00 -11:00 AM
  • Format: Zoom synchronous presentation
  • Academic Unit: Division of Biological Sciences, School of Biological & Chemical Sciences

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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Brief Bio Karyn Turla:

Karyn M. Turla, Ph.D., Teaching Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, School of Biological & Chemical Sciences

Karyn is from a small town nestled in the Allegheny Mountains in central Pennsylvania, and is a first generation college student. In 1987, Karyn received a B. S. in Biology from Pennsylvania State University with an emphasis in Vertebrate Physiology. In 1992, Karyn received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. Her thesis was entitled “Distribution and Regulation of Renal Mineralocorticoid and Glucocorticoid receptors. During her graduate training, Karyn had the honor and opportunity to work with Dr. Arthur Vander in the development of her teaching skills. Working with Dr. Vander, who had a true passion and skill for teaching, was the beginning of her love for teaching. Following her graduate education, Karyn pursued two Post-Doctoral fellowships at the Dartmouth Medical School where she continued her studies in renal physiology and immunology. During this time, Karyn also sought out opportunities to teach. It was through these experiences that her desire to become a college teaching professor were solidified.

Karyn’s first teaching assignment was at Friends University in Wichita KS. For 19 years she taught undergraduates, both majors, and non-majors. She was the Director of the Health Science program, and developed a novel Service abroad experience for health science majors. While at Friends, she was awarded the W. A. Young Excellence in Teaching Award. Karyn joined the UMKC team in 2015 where she teaches physiology to professional students and undergraduates. In 2016 and 2018, she was awarded, by the first year pharmacy students, the runner up award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2017 and 2019, she was awarded, by the first year pharmacy students, the Excellence in teaching award. Karyn feels at home here at UMKC, and looks forward to working with all of her students.

Brief Bio Tara Allen:

Tara J. Allen, Ph.D., Teaching Professor & Academic Advisor,  Division of Biological Sciences, School of Biological & Chemical Sciences

Tara is from a small town in Illinois and is a first-generation college student. She received her B.S. degree with majors in both Biology and Chemistry from the University of Evansville in 1996 and then a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2000. The title of her thesis was “Characterization of Vascular Smooth Muscle Oxidative Metabolism Using 13C Isotopomer Analysis of Glutamate.” Her research interests include the cardiovascular system, atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. It was during her graduate work, when she served as a Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate physiology lab and tutored extensively, that she realized her passion for teaching. This focus on teaching has driven her professional pursuits. At William Jewell College, where she worked from 2000-2013, she received tenure in 2006, reached the rank of Professor in 2010 and served as an Endowed Biology Department Chair (2007-2013). She also directed the Premedical Advisory Program, coordinated the Oxbridge Molecular Biology Major, mentored many students in research projects, and directed a science summer science camps for middle school girls and boys. She has taught a wide variety of courses including Anatomy, Physiology, Pathophysiology, General Biology, Histology, Cell Biology and in the General Education program. While at William Jewell, she was chosen as the Academic Advisor of the Year in 2006 and received the Distinguished Teacher Award in 2013. She began at UMKC as a Teaching Professor in 2013 and teaches Human Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology to undergraduates, graduate, medical and dental students. She joined the academic advising team in the School of Biological & Chemical Sciences in 2018. Tara was named the Dental Hygiene Lecturer of the Year in 2015 and received the Provost Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018.

Supporting Student Learning

Supporting Student Learning

June 23 @ 10:00 am – 10:40 am CDT

This 45-minute presentation and discussion will focus on the following topics:

  • Supporting students with learning challenges
  • Communicating with students
  • Facilitating group work
  • Making room for student input

Event Details

Presenter: Tho Nguyen

Academic Unit: School of Nursing and Health Science

Bio: https://sonhs.umkc.edu/directory/tho-nguyen/

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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The 21st Century Student: Engaging Students with Effectiveness and Positive Indelibility (Session 1 of 3)

As educators, we have many rich experiences that will help us connect to the 21st-century student in ways we may not have seen. Students have needs that we don’t understand. We have to realize that we, too, have to learn something new every day to help us understand the needs of those we teach. This course will hopefully help us reveal teaching tools we never thought we had. This course will offer insight into how professors can tap into their lives outside of the academic environment to glean information about how to work with the 21st-century student during this COVID-19 long-distance learning period that confronts us. Ideas about reaching students can come from raising children or taking care of elderly parents, or growing a garden, or singing in the church choir, for example. Connect with what engages you to find ways to engage students.

Event Details

Presenter: Michael Blake

Academic Unit: Conservatory

Bio: https://conservatory.umkc.edu/profiles/faculty-directory/michael-blake.html

Session 1 of 3: Please note: this faculty learning community meets three times: July 6, July 13, and July 20, from 9:00 – 10:00 am

Event format descriptions are available at UMKC PROFFCourses.

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